Handdrawn illustration of how vendors support their fork of android for a limited time, leading to piles of unnecessary e-waste

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   stovis (stovis@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:11:40 JST stovis

   Sunday doodle:

   Every time someone launches an Android phone, they fork (copy-paste) the entire code-base for each and every device and Android version. Keeping it up to date is a lot of effort for the vendors, but don't worry - they only do so for a limited amount of time, so that you have to buy a new phone instead!

   Source: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/26/intro/